[PATCH NAND 0/5] Replace printk statements with pr_*macros

Shreeya Patel shreeya.patel23498 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 09:35:52 PST 2018


On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 14:19 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Hi Shreeya,
> 
> Thanks for the contribution.
> 
> On 16 February 2018 at 13:50, Shreeya Patel
> <shreeya.patel23498 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > This patchset removes all the log levels i.e. KERN_WARN,
> > KERN_NOTICE, KERN_ERR, KERN_INFO, KERN_DEBUG used in the printk
> > statements and replaces the printk statements with appropriate
> > pr_*macros.
> > According to the kernel coding style, pr_*macro is the preferred
> > way to print the message.
> > 
> So, two things to begin with.
> 
> First of all, despite this contribution being part of outreachy,
> I believe you can include mailing lists in your case.
> 
> In other words, don't use the "nol" option in get_maintainer
> script and Cc the MTD mailing list: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org.

Ok. I'll take care of this.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Shreeya Patel (5):
> >   mtd/nand: Replace printk with pr_warn
> >   mtd/nand: Replace printk with pr_notice
> >   mtd/nand: Replace printk with pr_err
> >   mtd/nand: Replace printk with pr_info
> >   mtd/nand: Replace printk with pr_debug
> > 
> This is a non-usual split. We usually split patches per-driver,
> instead of grouping all the pr_{} of a given type together.
> 
> Can you re-do the series? Grouping the changes per-driver,
> i.e. all the pr_{} changes in cafe_nand.c together, and so on.

Yes, I'll do it again. :)

Also, I wanted to ask you that there are still printk statements 
present in the driver which are just printing the message i.e. they
don't include any log levels.
So should I leave them as it is?

Thanks for your reviews 
> 
> > 
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/ams-delta.c     |  4 +--
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/cafe_nand.c     |  4 +--
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/cs553x_nand.c   |  8 ++---
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/diskonchip.c    | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > ------------
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc_nand.c |  4 +--
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c  |  2 +-
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c      |  2 +-
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bch.c      | 12 +++----
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c       | 10 +++---
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/r852.c          |  2 +-
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/r852.h          |  6 ++--
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/sh_flctl.c      |  2 +-
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/sm_common.c     |  5 ++-
> >  13 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> > 
> 
> 



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